Election 2026

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Issue record

Water, land and cancer risk

In short

Miller-Meeks lists no water or cancer-rate position on the pages and posts checked. Bohannan's campaign ties Iowa's cancer growth to chemicals in the water and backs cutting PFAS. Bridgford's campaign backs conservation funds to cut nitrate runoff, no legal shields for pesticide makers and a federal investigation of cancer clusters. On the record, Bohannan cosponsored three 2021 Iowa bills on lead testing in water; none mentions PFAS or left committee.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks

No position on water quality, nitrate or Iowa's cancer rate appears in the scope this desk searched: the seven subject pages her official issues index links, which are delivering results, border security, economy, health, energy, veterans and education; every page of her official press-release index, headline and summary for each item, from the newest item of September 3, 2026 back to December 4, 2024; her campaign site, which carries no issues page and whose news list ends on December 6, 2024; and her own posts on X from both of her accounts, her campaign account and her official office account, 204 items and 146, 350 in all, posts and replies together, published from July 1, 2026 to the retrieval on September 13, 2026 and collected in full, each account exhausted rather than stopped at a cap. Nitrate, water quality, drinking water and PFAS return nothing in any of them, and neither do conservation, environment, climate, pesticide, runoff or contamination in the posts. The word cancer appears eight times on the issue pages and twelve times on the press index, each time in a breast-cancer measure, a cancer-screening provision or an awareness item, and never in connection with Iowa's rate or its causes; it appears four times in the posts, twice on her breast-cancer bill, once on cancer care funded through a rural health programme and once on a general commitment to cancer research, prevention and early detection, and in none of them on Iowa's rate or its causes. The word water appears in four of the posts, and in none of them as a question of quality: a tour of a surface water treatment plant where she says she talked through affordability and utility rates for rural communities, a speech on inland waterways as trade infrastructure, a steel mill's reuse of water on a manufacturing tour, and free watermelon at a county fair. The word land appears in three, on the estate tax and family farms, on Independence Day, and in a tribute to a farm advocate.

Christina Bohannan

Her campaign says Iowa ranks highest in the country for cancer growth and ties that to water and chemical exposure; among what she would fight for she lists action to reduce PFAS and other chemicals in the water, alongside protecting family farms from corporate consolidation and the state's natural resources.

Michael Bridgford

His campaign says Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the nation and the highest in the Midwest; he would oppose liability shields for pesticide manufacturers, expand Environmental Quality Incentives Program funding for voluntary conservation to cut nitrate runoff, press for state rebates for radon mitigation and reverse osmosis systems, and fund federal investigation of Iowa's cancer clusters.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. official action

    Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction

    In 2021 she co-sponsored three Iowa House bills on lead testing in water, none of which mentions PFAS or moved past committee referral.

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    Her campaign lists action to reduce PFAS and other chemicals in Iowa's water among what she would fight for in Congress. In her single term she was a sponsor of three 2021 bills on testing water for lead: House File 504, on using grants-to-counties money for lead and copper testing in water supply systems, introduced February 15 and referred to Environmental Protection; House File 569, on water bottle filling stations and lead testing in school districts, introduced February 17 and referred to Education; and House File 594, on lead testing in water systems serving child care facilities and schools, introduced February 18 and referred to Education. She was the last-named of between four and six sponsors on each. None has any action recorded after its referral, and the histories close with the end of the 2021 session. Limit: The three sponsorships move in the direction her platform states, on a narrower subject: they are about testing for lead and copper, while the platform sentence names PFAS, which none of them mentions. None became law, and the Iowa House was held by the other party in both years of her term, so no inference about her effectiveness follows from that. Nothing here is a federal record, because she has none.

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Sources12 source records

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  1. Issues indexhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/issues

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    The index links seven subject pages and no others: delivering results, border security, economy, health, energy, veterans and education. Cited on this desk as one part of the scope behind a position recorded as not found on her; the other parts are her official press-release index and her campaign site, because a search of the issue pages alone is not a search of what she has said.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  2. Issues: Healthhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/issues/health

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Lists bills she says she introduced or cosponsored to lower drug costs, including H.R. 4758 and H.R. 8111. The page's claim about H.R. 4758 is the statement side of the attribution card.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  3. Press Releases indexhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/media/press-releases

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Her official newsroom, and the scope this desk should have searched for the first draft. The index is paginated with a Next link and no page numbers, ten items to a page, each item a headline, a date and an opening summary. This desk read it page by page from the newest item of September 3, 2026 back through the address ?page=20, whose oldest item is December 4, 2024, which covers the whole of this Congress. An index sweep reads headlines and summaries; where a term turned up, the release itself was opened and read.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  4. Newshttps://drmillermeeks.com/news/

    Miller-Meeks for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    The campaign site's own news list: six items, the newest dated December 6, 2024, all six about the 2024 election. Read for the scope of the searches behind the silences recorded against her. Nitrate, water quality, drinking water, PFAS, cancer, minimum wage, collective bargaining, union, Social Security, solvency, trust fund and veteran appear nowhere on it.

    candidate statement

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  5. Miller-Meeks for Congress, home and biographyhttps://drmillermeeks.com/

    Miller-Meeks for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    The campaign site answered a plain request directly. It carries a biography and the phrase Proven Conservative but no issues or platform page: its navigation is About, Media, Triple-M Tour, News, Events, Voting Information and Donate, and its newest news item is dated December 6, 2024. Cited on this desk for her own biography and for the absence of a campaign platform.

    candidate statement

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  6. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Xhttps://x.com/millermeeks

    X · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Handle confirmed through the link in the campaign site's own footer, read live on September 13, 2026. Her campaign account, and a separate account from her official office account. Cited as the scope of a search behind a silence recorded against her: its posts and replies were collected in full for the window July 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026, 204 items, of which 12 are replies, the account exhausted rather than stopped at a cap.

    social profile

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  7. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on X, official office accounthttps://x.com/RepMMM

    X · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Her official office account, a separate account from the campaign account her campaign site links. The handle was read from the link on her own official House site, https://millermeeks.house.gov/, fetched live on September 13, 2026. Cited as the scope of a search behind a silence recorded against her: its posts and replies were collected in full for the window July 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026, 146 items, the account exhausted rather than stopped at a cap.

    social profile

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  8. Prioritieshttps://bohannanforcongress.com/priorities/

    Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Eight sections: lowering costs, restoring faith in government, health care, education, family farms and natural resources, seniors and Social Security, freedom, and a family friendly economy. Read directly from the live site; no archive was needed. The government section carries the sentence "I take no corporate PAC money.", which is the statement side of the money card on her.

    candidate statement

    For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position; Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction

  9. Issueshttps://bridgfordforiowa.com/Issues

    Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Eleven issue panels. The site is a client-rendered application: it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 but serves the same shell for every route and has no content API, so the panels were read twice, once rendered in a browser with each panel expanded and once extracted verbatim from the site's own JavaScript bundle. This is not a block and no archive was used.

    candidate statement

    For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position

  10. House File 504 (2021), bill historyhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF504&ga=89

    Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Use of grants-to-counties money for lead and copper testing in water supply systems. Sponsors: Mascher, Staed, Hansen, Winckler, Steckman and Bohannan; introduced and referred to Environmental Protection on February 15, 2021, with no later action recorded.

    official legislative record

    For: Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction

  11. House File 569 (2021), bill historyhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF569&ga=89

    Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Water bottle filling stations and lead testing in school districts. Sponsors: Mascher, Staed, Winckler and Bohannan; introduced and referred to Education on February 17, 2021, with no later action recorded.

    official legislative record

    For: Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction

  12. House File 594 (2021), bill historyhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF594&ga=89

    Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Lead testing in water supply systems serving child care facilities and schools. Sponsors: Mascher, Staed, Hansen, Winckler and Bohannan; introduced and referred to Education on February 18, 2021, with no later action recorded.

    official legislative record

    For: Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction